Psychic Witness - Netflix

Follow along as detectives across the country turn to the uncanny
abilities of psychics and solve the most baffling crimes with their
help. Through dramatic re-enactments, stunning visual effects and
interviews with actual participants, each episode of Psychic Witness
tells two captivating stories straight from the case files of real cops
— and real psychics.

Type: Documentary

Languages: English

Status: Ended

Runtime: 60 minutes

Premier: 2005-10-13

Psychic Witness - Doctor Sleep (novel) - Netflix

Doctor Sleep is a 2013 horror novel by American writer Stephen King and
the sequel to his 1977 novel The Shining. King stated that it is “a
return to balls-to-the-wall, keep-the-lights-on horror”. The book
reached the first position on The New York Times Best Seller list for
print and ebook fiction (combined), hardcover fiction, and ebook
fiction. Doctor Sleep won the 2013 Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel.

Psychic Witness - Plot - Netflix

Following the events of The Shining, after receiving a settlement from
the owners of the Overlook Hotel, Danny Torrance remains psychologically
traumatized as his mother Wendy slowly recovers from her injuries. Angry
ghosts from the Overlook, including the woman from Room 217, still want
to find Danny and eventually consume his phenomenal “shining” power.
Dick Hallorann, the Overlook's chef, teaches Danny to create lockboxes
in his mind to contain the ghosts, including that of former Overlook
owner Horace Derwent. As an adult, Danny (now going by Dan) takes up his
father's legacy of anger and alcoholism. Dan spends years drifting
across the country, but he eventually makes his way to New Hampshire and
decides to give up drinking. He settles in the small town of Frazier,
working first at a tourist attraction and then at a hospice, and
attending Alcoholics Anonymous meetings. His psychic abilities, long
suppressed by his drinking, re-emerge and allow him to provide comfort
to dying patients. Aided by a cat that can sense when someone is about
to die, Dan acquires the nickname “Doctor Sleep”. In the meantime, Abra
Stone, a baby girl born in 2001, begins to manifest psychic powers of
her own when she seemingly predicts the September 11 terrorist attacks.
She slowly and unintentionally establishes a telepathic bond with Dan;
as she grows, the contact becomes more conscious and voluntary, and her
shining grows stronger than his. One night, Abra psychically witnesses
the ritual torture and murder of a boy by the True Knot, a group of
quasi-immortals, many of which possess their own “shine” abilities, who
wander across America and periodically feed on “steam”, a psychic
essence produced when the people who possess the shining die in pain.
The True Knot's leader, Rose the Hat, becomes aware of Abra's existence
and formulates a plan to kidnap Abra and keep her alive, so she can
produce a limitless supply of steam. The True Knot begin to die off from
measles contracted from their last victim; they believe that Abra's
steam can cure them. Abra asks for Dan's help, and he reveals his
connection with Abra to her father David and their family doctor, John
Dalton. Angry and skeptical at first, David starts to believe Dan and
agrees to go along with his plan to save Abra. With the help of Billy
Freeman, one of Dan's friends, they foil and kill a raiding party sent
by Rose, led by Rose's lover Crow Daddy; however, Dan realizes that Rose
will relentlessly hunt Abra for revenge. He visits Abra's
great-grandmother Concetta, who is dying of cancer, and telepathically
learns from her that he and Abra's mother Lucy are half-siblings with
the same father. As Concetta dies, Dan takes her diseased steam into
himself. Meanwhile, dissention in the ranks of The True Knot, along with
Rose's obsession with Abra, leads to the group splitting up, leaving
Rose with even fewer followers. Following another kidnapping attempt
that Abra foils with Dan's telepathic help, she baits Rose into
confronting her at the location where the Overlook Hotel once stood in
the Rocky Mountains in Colorado, now home to a campsite owned by the
True Knot. Dan and Billy travel to the site, while Abra helps them by
using her astral projection. Lying in wait, Dan releases the steam
collected from Concetta to the remaining group of True Knot members,
killing all of them. He frees the ghost of Horace Derwent to kill the
last member, Silent Sarey, waiting to ambush him and Abra, and the two
fight Rose in a long psychic struggle. With help from Billy and the
ghost of Dan's father, Jack Torrance, they push Rose off an observation
platform to her death. Before leaving the campsite, Dan makes peace with
his father. In the epilogue, Dan celebrates fifteen years of sobriety
and attends Abra's fifteenth birthday party. He tells her about the
patterns of alcoholism and violent behavior that run in his family, and
warns her not to repeat them by starting to drink or submitting to rage.
Abra agrees that she will behave, but before they can finish the
conversation, Dan is called back to his hospice, where he comforts a
dying colleague who had antagonized him in the past.